11G R2 RAC OVM Templates.

It became pretty old news that Oracle released OVM templates for RAC (Real Application Clusters) , this was announced in openworld also.
This post is mainly to discuss the issues I faced during the installation and tips to do it better ,
I downloaded 11.2.0.2 ovm templates to the playaround with RAC.  
Download links :

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/vm/templates-101937.html ( Database & Real Application Clusters (RAC) ).
• http://edelivery.oracle.com

1)  During the download itself I got into issues ,as I went with a Download Manager and the Checksum failed. So its verify the check sum of the downloaded zip.

2) The Installation steps are pretty much clearly described in the Document that comes along with the download.
 

3) One main page I like to mention here is the screen where the OVM template is getting added to the VM server.The user name and password entering should anything apart from root , as if we enter root over here then it changes the password of the root each time we create a VM from this template.

 So Make sure that root user is not given here.

4) In this page please be careful with the With and down arrow at the end of the configuration. 

5) The emca is not configured with the default installation, so if you like to have it installed during this then its needs to enabled in the config file .
File : /u01/racovm/params.ini
Parameter :  " CONFIGURE_DBCONSOLE= YES"


Have a nice time with RAC OVM installation.


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